#  Glenda Carpio 

Chair of the Department of English

Harvard College Professor

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 

 

 

 



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Education: B.A., Vassar (1991)  
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002)

Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Theories on Memory and Textuality; Gender and Cultural Studies; Native American and Latino/a US Literature.

Selected Works:  
*Laughing Fit to Kill; Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery* (Oxford UP. 2008); *Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada*(American Literature, 2005); *Junot’s Prize: A Pulitzer First for Afro-Latino Literature* (April 29, 2008); ” ‘Any Gum, Chum?': Thomas Pynchon and the Culture of Modern War,” New Literary History of American Literature, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. (Harvard University Press, 2009).



 

 

 





 

 

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